SUBJECT: U.S. Contribution to the Korean Peninsula Energy
Development Organization (KEDO): Certification and
Waiver Under the Heading "Nonproliferation,
Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs" in Title
II of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000, as enacted in
Public Law 106-113

(1) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue to
take demonstrable steps to implement the Joint Declaration on
Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in which the Government of
North Korea has committed not to test, manufacture, produce,
receive, possess, store, deploy, or use nuclear weapons, and not to
possess nuclear reprocessing or uranium enrichment facilities;
(2) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue to
take demonstrable steps to pursue the North-South dialogue; and
(3) North Korea is complying with all provisions of the Agreed
Framework.

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 576(d) of the Act, I
hereby determine that it is vital to the national security interests of
the United States to furnish up to $15 million in funds made available
under the heading "Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining, and
Related Programs" of the Act, for assistance for KEDO, and therefore I
hereby waive the requirement in section 576(b) to certify that:

(4) North Korea has not diverted assistance provided by the United
States for purposes for which it was not intended; and
(5) North Korea is not seeking to develop or acquire the capability
to enrich uranium, or any additional capability to reprocess spent
nuclear fuel.

You are hereby authorized and directed to report this certification and
waiver to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal
Register.